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1805.) Account of the Parifh of Kirkbyftephen, in Weftmoreland. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, ; 
As you fometimes admit a folitary 
£\ query, oblige me by prefenting the 
following to your readers: Whether 
Keplei was the real inventor of the Magic 
Lanthorn, in 1665? I have fomewhere 
read, either that the Magic Lanthorn, or 
the principle on which it is conftruéted, 
was known to Roger Bacon; but as I 
am not aware of the period in whith con- 
vex-lenfcs were firt known, I am in- 
capable of judging how far the faé& may 
be allowed as an anecdote of optical 
{cience, Your’s, 
SCIOPTRICUS» 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
ACCOUNT of the PARISH of KIRKBY- 
STEPHEN, 7# the COUNTY of wEST- 
MORELAND. 
(Continued from page 106, No. 119.) 
eee chapel of Soulby was built in 
1663, by Sir Philip Mufgrave, ba- 
ronet, lord of the manors of Soulby and 
Hartley ; and it was conlecrated by Bifhop 
Stern, in the fame year. The right of 
prefentation to this chapel belongs to the 
Mulgrave family, who, by agreement, are 
to repairit when neceflary. It is nowof the 
- annual value of fixty pounds, arifing from 
lands, of which a part was given by the 
patron and founder, and the reft were 
purchafed by Queen Anne’s bounty. The 
prefent incumbent is the Rev. Mr. Brif- 
coe. 
Over the porch of the chapel of Mal- 
Jerflang is the following infcription : 
‘© This chapel of Mallerftang, after it 
had laid ruinous and decayed fome fifty 
or fixty years, was newe repaired by the 
Lady Anne Clifford, Countifle Dowager 
of Pembrooke, Dorfett, and Montgomery, 
in the year 1663; who alfoendowed the 
fame with lands which fhe purchafed in 
Cawtley, near Sedberg, to the yearly va- 
flue of eleaven pounds forever.” This 
eltate was given for the purpofe of main- 
taining a perfon qualified to read prayers 
and the homilies of the church of England, 
and to teach the children of Maller- 
fang to read and write Englifh. The 
chapel and ichool are both under one roof. 
Queen Anne’s bounty has been repeatedly 
procured to this chapel, which is at this 
time woith about eighty pounds per an- 
hum. The prefent incumbent is the Rev. 
Jeffery Bownels. 
_ The {chool of Winton isa {mall build- 
ing, and is endowed with lands, and with 
an annuity paid by Thomas Munkhovte, 
MONTHiy Mag, No.127,  *  ~ 
- by and Smardale. 
for the ufe of the poor widows of thofe 
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-Efq. whofe anceftors bequeathed to it the 
fum of one hundred pounds, and in whcm 
the nomination of a mafter is velted. The 
inhabitants pay for having their children 
taught Englith and Latin two thillings; for 
writing, three fhillings; and for arithmetic, 
four fhillings, per quarter. Such, how- 
ever, is the difficulty of procuring mafters, 
and fo great has become the neceffity of 
increafing. their ftipends, that this fchool 
has been for fome time without a teacher, 
owing to the {mallnefs of the falary. 
The fchool at Waitby was built in’ 
1630, by Mr. James Highmore, cloth- 
worker, in London, who was a native of 
this place, and who founded this feminary 
for the benefit of the inhabitants of W/ait- 
For that purpofe, and 
places, he gave the fum of four hundred 
pounds, with which Jand was purchafed 
in Cautley. The ftipend of the {choo 
amounts at prefent to about twenty-leven 
pounds per annum. 
Kaber is a {mall {chool, which was en- 
dowed by one Thomas Waller, with the 
fum of eight pounds per annum, and the 
falary of which, at this time, is about eleven 
or twelve pounds, fterling, per annum. - 
The diffenters feem to be gaining 
ground in this parifh. A fociety of Bap- 
tifts havea meeting-houfe, in the town of 
Kirkbyftephen; and in the villages, many 
itinerant preachers hold forth in private 
houfes. But as yet the number of metho. 
difts is inconfiderable ; and it is im the 
power of the eftablifhed clergy, by zeal 
and a due difcharge of the duties of their 
office, to prevent that number from in- 
creafing. 
The parifh of Kirkbyftephen is divided 
into ten townfhips, each of which majn- 
tains its poor feparately, and the popula- 
tion of which, in 1801, wasas follows: 
Town/fbips. Inhabitants. 
FOG DYIESOMCM ei ese BA AE 
hal eae i Pe aan eke 139 
Winton Mei ect eey 2 Ue 
VIACOM Ge. ae eh tewtots tos So 
IMATE ON see we) tas ks fhe) Beis 108 
IRAE ATES Se ne 314, 
Soulby “pda sale Mink ite ges, bis SENG 
WEADEN Ey te eae Vin ee 135 
RO CARGUW Eat tect a anol bts soe 60 
SECA CARN ile Re as 39 
Total in the parifh 25515 
Of the population of this parifh ‘in 
fomer times, we have no certain account. 
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* Part of Kaber is in the parish of Brough. 
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